[nightstreak]

That's

Unless they can resolve the issue of the large number of homeless people causing disruptions every night at the Yonge and Bloor intersection, I doubt that area can develop a proper nightlife atmosphere. I live in the neighborhood as well!

That's precisely why I'd like a hotel and resto-bar with round the clock activity. A high end hotel would create an incentive to shoe away "undesirables" with eyes on the street day and night. A store of any type will close at 6 or 7PM and cede the intersection to those elements all night. Yonge and Bloor is gentrifying already, pushing the "Yonge Street" feeling south. A high end hotel will strengthen that effect.

 

[officedweller]

^Maybe they are prepping to install that mezzanine there...

Probably for a staircase.

 

[Johnny Au]

July 29, 2025:

Yonge and St. Clair:

 

[JamesMcGrath]

I'm getting bored. I want crown!

 

[HometownPride]

How's the tuned mass damper coming along?

 

[Rascacielo]

Kinda tacky to hoist that beam with the 300m mark with so much fanfare and then not doing any work on the crown for weeks IMO. I suppose they were worried SkyTower would surpass their tower if they'd waited to hold the ceremony until they were ready to work on the crown.

 

[Collingwoodbuildinglover]

I think that they have to wait until the remaining concrete is bored before they can move forward with the tuned mass damper as it is design for the buildings weight and not having those corners complete would be hundreds of pounds of difference between what the damper is designed for and what the current building is also if you look at hawcs pictures You can see that the core is still three levels down so they cannot close the elevator core yet

 

[Rascacielo]

I think that they have to wait until the remaining concrete is bored before they can move forward with the tuned mass damper as it is design for the buildings weight and not having those corners complete would be hundreds of pounds of difference between what the damper is designed for and what the current building is also if you look at hawcs pictures You can see that the core is still three levels down so they cannot close the elevator core yet

Then they should’ve waited to hoist that beam until they were ready. But as I’ve said, by the time they are, SkyTower will have surpassed 300m and Tridel can longer claim to have the first ‘building’ in Canada to hit that mark. Oh well, such antics are to be expected when developers are in a skyscraper race (see NYC in the late 1920s).

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Corners first, then the top bits...to my understanding.

...on the brighter side of life, the blue corner hording thingies are only two floors away from the top now.

 

[hawc]

SkyTower will have surpassed 300m and Tridel can no longer claim to have the first ‘building’ in Canada to hit that mark.

They can claim the first building in Canada to hit 300 metres FOREVER. They were the first and first doesn't change. The only thing they wont' be able to claim soon is the ONLY building.

 

[Rascacielo]

They can claim the first building in Canada to hit 300 metres FOREVER. They were the first and first doesn't change. The only thing they wont' be able to claim soon is the ONLY building.

I was referring to what would happen if they had waited until they were ready to work on the crown before having the ‘300m ceremony’. There’s a good chance that SkyTower would cross that mark by then.

 

[Collingwoodbuildinglover]

You're probably correct though I have noticed that sky Tower has slowed down a little bit in the last few weeks which I think was due to them moving concrete pump and that

 

[ImmenselyMental]

Just one photo of One Bloor West today, from outside OISE at noon:

 

[Contra]

I've had a history of getting this one wrong but we're more or less around here.

 

[kotsy]

I've had a history of getting this one wrong but we're more or less around here.

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Nice touch with adding then subtracting the height increase